Though Bela retired as a coach in 2001, the 78-year-old’s wife Martha acted as the team coordinator for USA gymnastics with plans to step away from the sport following the successful 2016 Olympic run. In 2010, the couple signed a contract with USAG to lease Karolyi Ranch through 2021 as the official training facility.

Károlyi retired from coaching after the 1996 Olympics. He and Márta still have a ranch and gymnastics camp in New Waverly, Texas.

In fact, USA Gymnastics named the Karolyi Ranch an official training site in 2011. The agreement was canceled in 2018 after it was learned Larry Nassar, the former team doctor, had sexually assaulted young athletes in several locations, including the ranch.

Bela Karolyi
Bela Karolyi is regarded as the most successful gymnastic coach in the history of the sport. He produced 28 Olympic gymnasts, 9 of them champions, 15 world champions, 12 European medalists and U.S. national champions (Sports Byline USA).

It’s closed. Everything got packed up and taken out.” In May 2017, USA Gymnastics called off its $3 million purchase of the Ranch but continued to send hundreds of athletes there for training camps. Then, in January 2018, Simone Biles added her name to the growing list of survivors of Nassar’s abuse.

The two Olympic gold-medal winners would wed in 1996, years after Conner helped extricate Comaneci from a relationship with Constantin Panait, a Romanian emigre who the gymnast said had abused her after she escaped to the West.

The couple were seemingly on top of the world after the U.S. women’s gymnastics team took home nine medals in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Instead, USA Gymnastics terminated its agreement with the Karolyi Ranch in January 2018 after Nassar was sentenced, per a press release from USA Gymnastics CEO and president Kerry Perry.

Karolyi Ranch

“We’ve had a lot of tears combined because as much as we’re happy for Team USA, in the back, it was a little heartbreaking to know that she could’ve been out there and she could’ve, hopefully, earned some medals as well,” Biles’ coach Cecile Canqueteau-Landi told reporters after the beam final.

A month after the Rio Olympics, an Indianapolis Star report revealed that two former athletes had accused national team doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse. That number now totals more than 500 — including several dozen national team members who said they were abused by Nassar at the Karolyi Ranch.

Károlyi’s status as “Nadia’s coach” quickly attracted gymnasts to his club. Only three years after his defection, he was at the 1984 Olympics as the individual coach of all-around champion Mary Lou Retton and uneven bars gold medalist Julianne McNamara.

Károlyi retired from coaching after the 1996 Olympics. He and Márta still have a ranch and gymnastics camp in New Waverly, Texas. In 1997, Béla was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

Béla Károlyi was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1997. Béla and Márta Károlyi as a coaching team were inducted into the US Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2000. Károlyi was born in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania ).

Béla Károlyi (Hungarian: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈkaːroji]; born September 13, 1942) is a Romanian-American gymnastics coach. Early in his coaching career he developed the Romanian centralised training system for gymnastics.